July 12 - Revisiting the Lord's Prayer Through the Lens of Aramaic, Jesus' language

When Jesus’ disciples asked, “Lord, teach us to pray”, he answered in Aramaic, the language spoken by Jews in Judea in the 1st century. The oral traditions carried collections of sayings, such as his answer, which appear in Koine Greek in the written gospels. Several differing Greek texts, plus English and Latin translations, lay behind the King James Version of the Bible in 1602. And this classic gave us the familiar “Lord’s Prayer”, now frozen for many by rote repetition. The phrase “lost in translation” easily becomes a question when looking at the prayer’s history.

A small book, Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus, offers new translations of the prayers' eight key phrases, and meditations on each open our hearts to transformative insight.

Together, we will consider the shifts from traditional to new wording of each segment and then read aloud and discuss the meditation offered on each. Reading and writing material will be provided. Please join us downstairs at UFP from 7 - 8 pm on Sunday, July 12th. Door opens are 6:30.

Please note there is no childcare available and no concurrent children's program. Children are to be supervised by the one(s) who brought them. Please bring quiet activities for your young one or discover something in the UFP Resource Basket. A tote of kids' activities will be available.